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Structure of B.A. Honours English under CBCS

Core Course

Paper Titles1. Indian Classical Literature2. European Classical Literature3. Indian Writing in English4. British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries5. American Literature6. Popular Literature7. British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries8. British Literature: 18th Century9. British Romantic Literature10. British Literature: 19th Century11.Women’s Writing12.British Literature: The Early 20th Century13.Modern European Drama14.Postcolonial Literatures

Discipline Centric Elective (Any four)

Paper Titles

1. Modern Indian Writing in English Translation2. Literature of the Indian Diaspora3. British Literature: Post World War II4. Nineteenth Century European Realism5. Literary Theory6. Literary Criticism *7. Science fiction and Detective Literature8. Literature and Cinema9. World Literatures

10. Partition Literature11. Research Methodology12. Non-fictional Narratives *13. Biography and Autobiography *

*Syllabi to be developed/reviewed

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Generic Elective (Any four)Paper Titles

1. Academic Writing and Composition

2. Media and Communication Skills

3. Text and Performance

4. Language and Linguistics

5. Women and Empowerment

6. Modern Indian Literature (The North East)

7. Contemporary India

8. Gender and Human Rights

9. Modern Indian Literature: Poems and Short Stories

10. Language, Literature and Culture

*Syllabus under revision

Ability Enhancement CourseCompulsory

Paper Titles

1. Environmental Study2. English/MIL Communication

Ability Enhancement Elective Course (Any two)

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Paper Titles

1. Film Studies *

2. English Language Teaching

3. Soft Skills

4. Translation Studies and Principles of Translation

5. Creative Writing

6. Business Communication

7. Technical Writing

*Syllabus under revision

Structure of B.A./B.Com. Programme under CBCS

English

Semester 1

AECC: English Communication Skills/MIL/EVS

DSC 1A: The Individual and Society. Eds

Semester 2

AECC: English Communication Skills/MIL/EVS

DSC 1B: Selections (poems, short stories) from Modern Indian Literature

Semester 3

DSC 1C: British Literature

Novel

Play

AEEC -1: Creative Writing, Book and Media Reviews

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Semester 4

DSC 1D: Literary Cross Currents

Selections from Living Literatures-An Anthology of Prose and PoetryEds.Vinay Sood, et al. Orient Longman

Novella

Play

AEEC-2: Translation Studies and Principles of Translation

Semester 5

AEEC-3: Technical Writing

DSE-1A: Soft Skills

GE-1: Gender and Human Rights

Semester 6

AEEC- 4: Business Communication

DSE-1B: Academic Writing

GE -2: Cultural Diversity

Detailed Syllabi

I. B.A. Honours Core

Paper 1: Indian Classical Literature1. Kalidasa Abhijnana Shakuntalam, tr. Chandra Rajan, in Kalidasa: The Loom ofTime (New Delhi:

Penguin, 1989).2. Vyasa ‘The Dicing’ and ‘The Sequel to Dicing, ‘The Book of the Assembly Hall’,‘The Temptation of Karna’,

Book V ‘The Book of Effort’, in The Mahabharata: tr. and ed. J.A.B. van Buitenen(Chicago: Brill, 1975) pp. 106–69.

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3. Sudraka Mrcchakatika, tr. M.M. Ramachandra Kale (New

Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass, 1962).4. Ilango Adigal ‘The Book of Banci’, in Cilappatikaram: The Tale of

an Anklet, tr. R. Parthasarathy (Delhi: Penguin,2004) book 3.Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsThe Indian Epic Tradition: Themes and RecensionsClassical Indian Drama: Theory and PracticeAlankara and RasaDharma and the HeroicReadings1. Bharata, Natyashastra, tr. Manomohan Ghosh, vol. I, 2nd edn (Calcutta:Granthalaya, 1967) chap. 6: ‘Sentiments’, pp. 100–18.2. Iravati Karve, ‘Draupadi’, in Yuganta: The End of an Epoch (Hyderabad: Disha,1991) pp. 79–105.3. J.A.B. Van Buitenen, ‘Dharma and Moksa’, in Roy W. Perrett, ed., IndianPhilosophy, vol. V, Theory of Value: A Collection of Readings (New York: Garland,2000) pp. 33–40.4. Vinay Dharwadkar, ‘Orientalism and the Study of Indian Literature’, inOrientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia, ed. CarolA. Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer (New Delhi: OUP, 1994) pp. 158–95.

Paper 2: European Classical Literature1. Homer The Iliad, tr. E.V. Rieu (Harmondsworth:

Penguin,1985).2. Sophocles Oedipus the King, tr. Robert Fagles in

Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984).3. Plautus Pot of Gold, tr. E.F. Watling (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965).4. Ovid Selections from Metamorphoses ‘Bacchus’,

(Book III), ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ (Book IV), ‘Philomela’ (Book VI), tr. Mary M. Innes(Harmondsworth: Penguin,1975).Horace Satires I: 4, in Horace: Satires and Epistles and Persius: Satires, tr. NiallRudd (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2005).Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsThe EpicComedy and Tragedy in Classical Drama

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The Athenian City StateCatharsis and MimesisSatireLiterary Cultures in Augustan RomeReadings1. Aristotle, Poetics, translated with an introduction and notes by Malcolm Heath,(London: Penguin, 1996) chaps. 6–17, 23, 24, and 26.2. Plato, The Republic, Book X, tr. Desmond Lee (London: Penguin, 2007).3. Horace, Ars Poetica, tr. H. Rushton Fairclough, Horace: Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica(Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005) pp. 451–73.

Paper 3: Indian Writing in English1. R.K. Narayan Swami and Friends2. Anita Desai In Custody3. H.L.V. Derozio ‘Freedom to the Slave’

‘The Orphan Girl’Kamala Das ‘Introduction’‘My Grandmother’s House’Nissim Ezekiel ‘Enterprise’‘The Night of the Scorpion’Robin S. Ngangom The Strange Affair of Robin S. Ngangom’‘A Poem for Mother’4. Mulk Raj Anand ‘Two Lady Rams’

Salman Rushdie ‘The Free Radio’Rohinton Mistry ‘Swimming Lesson’Aravind Adiga ‘The Sultan’s Battery’Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsIndian EnglishIndian English Literature and its ReadershipThemes and Contexts of the Indian English NovelThe Aesthetics of Indian English PoetryModernism in Indian English LiteratureReadings1. Raja Rao, Foreword to Kanthapura (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. v–vi.2. Salman Rushdie, ‘Commonwealth Literature does not exist’, in ImaginaryHomelands (London: Granta Books, 1991) pp. 61–70.3. Meenakshi Mukherjee, ‘Divided by a Common Language’, in The PerishableEmpire (New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp.187–203.4. Bruce King, ‘Introduction’, in Modern Indian Poetry in English (New Delhi: OUP,2nd edn, 2005) pp. 1–10.

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Paper 4: British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries1. Geoffrey Chaucer The Wife of Bath’s Prologue

Edmund Spenser Selections from Amoretti:Sonnet LXVII ‘Like as a huntsman...’Sonnet LVII ‘Sweet warrior...’Sonnet LXXV ‘One day I wrote her name...’John Donne ‘The Sunne Rising’‘Batter My Heart’‘Valediction: forbidding mourning’2. Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus3. William Shakespeare Othello4. William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsRenaissance HumanismThe Stage, Court and CityReligious and Political ThoughtIdeas of Love and MarriageThe Poet in SocietyReadings1. Pico Della Mirandola, excerpts from the Oration on the Dignity of Man, in ThePortable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin(New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 476–9.2. John Calvin, ‘Predestination and Free Will’, in The Portable Renaissance Reader,ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books,1953) pp. 704–11.3. Baldassare Castiglione, ‘Longing for Beauty’ and ‘Invocation of Love’, in Book 4of The Courtier, ‘Love and Beauty’, tr. George Bull (Harmondsworth: Penguin, rpt.1983) pp. 324–8, 330–5.4. Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, ed. Forrest G. Robinson (Indianapolis:Bobbs-Merrill, 1970) pp. 13–18.

Paper 5: American Literature1. Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables2. Toni Morrison Beloved3. Edgar Allan Poe ‘The Purloined Letter’F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘The Crack-up’William Faulkner ‘Dry September’4. Anne Bradstreet ‘The Prologue’Walt Whitman Selections from Leaves of Grass:‘O Captain, My Captain’‘Passage to India’ (lines 1–68)Alexie Sherman Alexie ‘Crow Testament’

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‘Evolution’Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsThe American DreamSocial Realism and the American NovelFolklore and the American NovelBlack Women’s WritingQuestions of Form in American PoetryReadings1. Hector St John Crevecouer, ‘What is an American’, (Letter III) in Letters from anAmerican Farmer (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) pp. 66–105.2. Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) chaps. 1–7, pp. 47–87.3. Henry David Thoreau, ‘Battle of the Ants’ excerpt from ‘Brute Neighbours’, inWalden (Oxford: OUP, 1997) chap. 12.4. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Self Reliance’, in The Selected Writings of Ralph WaldoEmerson, ed. with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson (New York: TheModern Library, 1964).5. Toni Morrison, ‘Romancing the Shadow’, in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness andLiterary Imagination (London: Picador, 1993) pp. 29–39.

Paper 6: Popular Literature1. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass2. Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd3. Shyam Selvadurai Funny Boy4. Durgabai Vyam and

Subhash Vyam Bhimayana: Experiences of UntouchabilitySuggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsComing of AgeThe Canonical and the PopularCaste, Gender and IdentityEthics and Education in Children’s LiteratureSense and NonsenseThe Graphic NovelReadings1. Chelva Kanaganayakam, ‘Dancing in the Rarefied Air: Reading ContemporarySri Lankan Literature’ (ARIEL, Jan. 1998) rpt, Malashri Lal, Alamgir Hashmi, andVictor J. Ramraj, eds., Post Independence Voices in South Asian Writings (Delhi:Doaba Publications, 2001) pp. 51–65.2. Sumathi Ramaswamy, ‘Introduction’, in Beyond Appearances?: Visual Practicesand Ideologies in Modern India (Sage: Delhi, 2003) pp. xiii–xxix.

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3. Leslie Fiedler, ‘Towards a Definition of Popular Literature’, in Super Culture:American Popular Culture and Europe, ed. C.W.E. Bigsby (Ohio: Bowling GreenUniversity Press, 1975) pp. 29–38.4. Felicity Hughes, ‘Children’s Literature: Theory and Practice’, English LiteraryHistory, vol. 45, 1978, pp. 542–61.

Paper 7: British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries1. John Milton Paradise Lost: Book 12. John Webster The Duchess of Malfi3. Aphra Behn The Rover4. Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsReligious and Secular Thought in the 17th CenturyThe Stage, the State and the MarketThe Mock-epic and SatireWomen in the 17th CenturyThe Comedy of MannersReadings1. The Holy Bible, Genesis, chaps. 1–4, The Gospel according to St. Luke, chaps. 1–7 and 22–4.2. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, ed. and tr. Robert M. Adams (New York: Norton,1992) chaps. 15, 16, 18, and 25.3. Thomas Hobbes, selections from The Leviathan, pt. I (New York: Norton, 2006)chaps. 8, 11, and 13.4. John Dryden, ‘A Discourse Concerning the Origin and Progress of Satire’, in TheNorton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1, 9th edn, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (NewYork: Norton 2012) pp. 1767–8.

Paper 8: 18th Century British Literature1. William Congreve The Way of the World2. Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels (Books III and IV)3. Samuel Johnson ‘London’Thomas Gray ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’4. Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanSuggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsThe Enlightenment and NeoclassicismRestoration ComedyThe Country and the CityThe Novel and the Periodical PressReadings1. Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the EnglishStage (London: Routledge, 1996).

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2. Daniel Defoe, ‘The Complete English Tradesman’ (Letter XXII), ‘The Great Law ofSubordination Considered’ (Letter IV), and ‘The Complete English Gentleman’, inLiterature and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England, ed. Stephen Copley(London: Croom Helm, 1984).3. Samuel Johnson, ‘Essay 156’, in The Rambler, in Selected Writings: SamuelJohnson, ed. Peter Martin (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009) pp.194–7; Rasselas Chapter 10; ‘Pope’s Intellectual Character: Pope and DrydenCompared’, from The Life of Pope, in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol.1, ed. Stephen Greenblatt, 8th edn (New York: Norton, 2006) pp. 2693–4, 2774–7.

Paper 9: British Romantic Literature1. William Blake ‘The Lamb’,

‘The Chimney Sweeper’ (from The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience)‘The Tyger’ (The Songs of Experience)'Introduction’ to The Songs of InnocenceRobert Burns ‘A Bard’s Epitaph’‘Scots Wha Hae’2. William Wordsworth ‘Tintern Abbey’

‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’Samuel Taylor Coleridge ‘Kubla Khan’‘Dejection: An Ode’3. Lord George Gordon

Noel Byron ‘Childe Harold’: canto III, verses 36–45(lines 316–405); canto IV, verses 178–86(lines 1594–674)Percy Bysshe Shelley ‘Ode to the West Wind’‘Ozymandias’‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’John Keats ‘Ode to a Nightingale’‘To Autumn’‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’4. Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsReason and ImaginationConceptions of NatureLiterature and RevolutionThe GothicThe Romantic LyricReadings

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1. William Wordsworth, ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’, in Romantic Prose and Poetry,ed. Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling (New York: OUP, 1973) pp. 594–611.2. John Keats, ‘Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 21 December 1817’, and‘Letter to Richard Woodhouse, 27 October, 1818’, in Romantic Prose and Poetry,ed. Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling (New York: OUP, 1973) pp. 766–68, 777–8.3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ‘Preface’ to Emile or Education, tr. Allan Bloom(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991).�. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ed. George Watson (London:Everyman, 1993) chap. XIII, pp. 161–66.

Paper 10: British Literature: 19th Century1. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice2. Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre3. Charles Dickens Hard Times4. Alfred Tennyson ‘The Lady of Shallot’

‘Ulysses’‘The Defence of Lucknow’Robert Browning ‘My Last Duchess’‘The Last Ride Together’‘Fra Lippo Lippi’Christina Rossetti ‘The Goblin Market’Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsUtilitarianismThe 19th Century NovelMarriage and SexualityThe Writer and SocietyFaith and DoubtThe Dramatic MonologueReadings1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ‘Mode of Production: The Basis of Social Life’,‘The Social Nature of Consciousness’, and ‘Classes and Ideology’, in A Reader inMarxist Philosophy, ed. Howard Selsam and Harry Martel (New York: InternationalPublishers,1963) pp. 186–8, 190–1, 199–201.

2. Charles Darwin, ‘Natural Selection and Sexual Selection’, in The Descent of Manin The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th edn, vol. 2, ed. StephenGreenblatt (New York: Northon, 2006) pp. 1545–9.3. John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women in Norton Anthology of EnglishLiterature, 8th edn, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New York: Norton, 2006) chap.1, pp. 1061–9.

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Paper 11: Women’s Writing1. Emily Dickinson ‘I cannot live with you’

‘I’m wife; I’ve finished that’Sylvia Plath ‘Daddy’‘Lady Lazarus’Eunice De Souza ‘Advice to Women’‘Bequest’2. Alice Walker The Color Purple3. Charlotte Perkins Gilman ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’

Katherine Mansfield ‘Bliss’Mahashweta Devi ‘Draupadi’, tr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Calcutta: Seagull,2002)4. Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New

York: Norton, 1988) chap. 1, pp. 11–19; chap. 2, pp. 19–38.Ramabai Ranade ‘A Testimony of our Inexhaustible Treasures’, in PanditaRamabai Through Her Own Words: Selected Works, tr. Meera Kosambi (New Delhi:OUP, 2000) pp. 295–324.Rassundari Debi Excerpts from Amar Jiban in Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, eds.,Women’s Writing in India, vol. 1 (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. 191–2.Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsThe Confessional Mode in Women's WritingSexual PoliticsRace, Caste and GenderSocial Reform and Women’s RightsReadings1. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (New York: Harcourt, 1957) chaps. 1 and 6.2. Simone de Beauvoir, ‘Introduction’, in The Second Sex, tr. Constance Borde andShiela Malovany-Chevallier (London: Vintage, 2010) pp. 3–18.3. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, eds., ‘Introduction’, in Recasting Women:Essays in Colonial History (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989) pp. 1–25.4. Chandra Talapade Mohanty, ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship andColonial Discourses’, in Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader, ed. PadminiMongia (New York: Arnold, 1996) pp. 172–97.

Paper 12: British Literature: The Early 20th Century1. Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness2. D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers3. Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway

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4. W.B. Yeats ‘Leda and the Swan’

‘The Second Coming’‘No Second Troy’‘Sailing to Byzantium’T.S. Eliot ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’‘Sweeney among the Nightingales’‘The Hollow Men’Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsModernism and non-European CulturesThe Women’s Movement in the Early 20th CenturyPsychoanalysis and the Stream of ConsciousnessThe Uses of MythThe Avant GardeReadings1. Sigmund Freud, ‘Theory of Dreams’, ‘Oedipus Complex’, and ‘The Structure ofthe Unconscious’, in The Modern Tradition, ed. Richard Ellman et. al. (Oxford:OUP, 1965) pp. 571, 578–80, 559–63.2. T.S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, in Norton Anthology of EnglishLiterature, 8th edn, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New York: Norton, 2006) pp.2319–25.3. Raymond Williams, ‘Introduction’, in The English Novel from Dickens toLawrence (London: Hogarth Press, 1984) pp. 9–27.

Paper 13: Modern European Drama1. Henrik Ibsen Ghosts2. Bertolt Brecht The Good Woman of Szechuan3. Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot4. Eugene Ionesco Rhinoceros

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsPolitics, Social Change and the StageText and PerformanceEuropean Drama: Realism and BeyondTragedy and Heroism in Modern European DramaThe Theatre of the AbsurdReadings1. Constantin Stanislavski, An Actor Prepares, chap. 8, ‘Faith and the Sense ofTruth’, tr. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967) sections1, 2, 7, 8, 9, pp. 121–5, 137–46.2. Bertolt Brecht, ‘The Street Scene’, ‘Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre forInstruction’, and ‘Dramatic Theatre vs Epic Theatre’, in Brecht on Theatre: The

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Development of an Aesthetic, ed. and tr. John Willet (London: Methuen, 1992) pp.68–76, 121–8.3. George Steiner, ‘On Modern Tragedy’, in The Death of Tragedy (London: Faber,1995) pp. 303–24.

Paper 14: Postcolonial Literatures1. Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold3. Bessie Head ‘The Collector of Treasures’

Ama Ata Aidoo ‘The Girl who can’Grace Ogot ‘The Green Leaves’4. Pablo Neruda ‘Tonight I can Write’

‘The Way Spain Was’‘Ode to a Tomato’Derek Walcott ‘A Far Cry from Africa’‘Goats and Monkeys’‘Names’David Malouf ‘Revolving Days’‘Wild Lemons’‘The Martyrdom in Room no 14’Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsDe-colonization, Globalization and LiteratureLiterature and Identity PoliticsWriting for the New World AudienceRegion, Race, and GenderPostcolonial Literatures and Questions of FormReadings1. Franz Fanon, ‘The Negro and Language’, in Black Skin, White Masks, tr. CharlesLam Markmann (London: Pluto Press, 2008) pp. 8–27.2. Ngugi wa Thiong’o, ‘The Language of African Literature’, in Decolonising theMind (London: James Curry, 1986) chap. 1, sections 4–6.3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, in Gabriel GarciaMarquez: New Readings, ed. Bernard McGuirk and Richard Cardwell (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1987).

II.Discipline Centric Elective (Any Four)

Detailed Syllabi

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Paper 1.

Modern Indian Writing in English Translation1. Premchand ‘The Shroud’, in Penguin Book of Classic Urdu

Stories, ed. M. Assaduddin (New Delhi:Penguin/Viking, 2006).Ismat Chugtai ‘The Quilt’, in Lifting the Veil: Selected Writings of Ismat Chugtai, tr.M. Assaduddin (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2009).Gurdial Singh ‘A Season of No Return’, in Earthy Tones, tr. Rana Nayar (Delhi:Fiction House, 2002).Fakir Mohan Senapati ‘Rebati’, in Oriya Stories, ed. Vidya Das, tr. Kishori CharanDas (Delhi: Srishti Publishers, 2000).2. Rabindra Nath Tagore ‘Light, Oh Where is the Light?' and 'When My

Play was with thee', in Gitanjali: A New Translation with an Introduction by WilliamRadice (New Delhi: Penguin India, 2011).G.M. Muktibodh ‘The Void’, (tr. Vinay Dharwadker) and ‘So Very Far’, (tr. Tr.Vishnu Khare and Adil Jussawala), in The Oxford Anthology of Modern IndianPoetry, ed. Vinay Dharwadker and A.K. Ramanujam (New Delhi: OUP, 2000).Amrita Pritam ‘I Say Unto Waris Shah’, (tr. N.S. Tasneem) in Modern IndianLiterature: An Anthology, Plays and Prose, Surveys and Poems, ed. K.M. George,vol. 3 (Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1992).Thangjam Ibopishak Singh ‘Dali, Hussain, or Odour of Dream, Colourof Wind’ and ‘The Land of the Half-Humans’, tr. Robin S. Ngangom, in TheAnthology of Contemporary Poetry from the Northeast (NEHU: Shillong, 2003).3. Dharamveer Bharati Andha Yug, tr. Alok Bhalla (New Delhi: OUP,

2009).4. G. Kalyan Rao Untouchable Spring, tr. Alladi Uma and M.

Sridhar (Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2010)Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsThe Aesthetics of TranslationLinguistic Regions and LanguagesModernity in Indian LiteratureCaste, Gender and ResistanceQuestions of Form in 20th Century Indian Literature eadings1. Namwar Singh, ‘Decolonising the Indian Mind’, tr. Harish Trivedi, IndianLiterature, no. 151 (Sept./Oct. 1992).2. B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings andSpeeches, vol. 1 (Maharashtra: Education Department, Government ofMaharashtra, 1979) chaps. 4, 6, and 14.

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3. Sujit Mukherjee, ‘A Link Literature for India’, in Translation as Discovery(Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1994) pp. 34–45.4. G.N. Devy, ‘Introduction’, from After Amnesia in The G.N. Devy Reader (NewDelhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2009) pp. 1–5.

Paper 2Literature of the Indian Diaspora

1. M. G. Vassanji The Book of Secrets (Penguin, India)2. Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance ( Alfred A Knopf)3. Meera Syal Anita and Me (Harper Collins)4. Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)5. Hari Kunzru Transmissions (Penguin Books)

Background Reading

“Introduction: The diasporic imaginary” in Mishra, V. (2008). Literature of theIndian diaspora. London: Routledge

“Cultural Configurations of Diaspora,” in Kalra, V. Kaur, R. and Hutynuk, J. (2005).Diaspora & hybridity. London: Sage Publications.

“The New Empire within Britain,” in Rushdie, S. (1991). Imaginary Homelands.London: Granta Books.

Paper 3British Literature (Post World War II)1. John Fowles The French Lieutenant’s Woman2. Jeanette Winterson Sexing the Cherry3. Hanif Kureshi My Beautiful Launderette4. Phillip Larkin ‘Whitsun Weddings’

‘Church Going’Ted Hughes ‘Hawk Roosting’‘Crow’s Fall’Seamus Heaney ‘Digging’‘Casualty’Carol Anne Duffy ‘Text’

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‘Stealing’Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsPostmodernism in British LiteratureBritishness after 1960sIntertextuality and ExperimentationLiterature and CountercultureReadings1. Alan Sinfield, ‘Literature and Cultural Production’, in Literature, Politics, andCulture in Postwar Britain (Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press,1989) pp. 23–38.2. Seamus Heaney, ‘The Redress of Poetry’, in The Redress of Poetry (London:Faber, 1995) pp. 1–16.3. Patricia Waugh, ‘Culture and Change: 1960-1990’, in The Harvest of The Sixties:English Literature And Its Background, 1960-1990 (Oxford: OUP, 1997).

Paper 4Nineteenth Century European Realism1. Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons, tr. Peter Carson (London:

Penguin, 2009).2. Fyodor Dostoyvesky Crime and Punishment, tr. Jessie Coulson

London: Norton, 1989).3. Honore de Balzac Old Goriot, tr. M.A. Crawford (London:

Penguin, 2003).4. Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary, tr. Geoffrey Wall (London:

Penguin, 2002).Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsHistory, Realism and the Novel FormEthics and the NovelThe Novel and its Readership in the 19th CenturyPolitics and the Russian Novel: Slavophiles and WesternizersReadings1. Leo Tolstoy, ‘Man as a creature of history in War and Peace’, ed. RichardEllmann et. al., The Modern Tradition, (Oxford: OUP, 1965) pp. 246–54.2. Honore de Balzac, ‘Society as Historical Organism’, from Preface to The HumanComedy, in The Modern Tradition, ed. Ellmann et. al (Oxford: OUP, 1965) pp. 265–67.3. Gustav Flaubert, ‘Heroic honesty’, Letter on Madame Bovary, in The ModernTradition, ed. Richard Ellmann et. al. (Oxford: OUP, 1965) pp. 242–3.

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4. George Lukacs, ‘Balzac and Stendhal’, in Studies in European Realism (London,Merlin Press, 1972) pp. 65–85.

Paper 5Literary Theory1. Marxisma) Antonio Gramsci, ‘The Formation of the Intellectuals’ and ‘Hegemony (CivilSociety) and Separation of Powers’, in Selections from the Prison Notebooks, ed. andtr. Quentin Hoare and Geoffrey Novell Smith (London: Lawrence and Wishart,1971) pp. 5, 245–6.b) Louis Althusser, ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’, in Lenin andPhilosophy and Other Essays (New Delhi: Aakar Books, 2006) pp. 85–126.

2. Feminisma) Elaine Showalter, ‘Twenty Years on: A Literature of Their Own Revisited’, in ALiterature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing (1977. Rpt.London: Virago, 2003) pp. xi–xxxiii.b) Luce Irigaray, ‘When the Goods Get Together’ (from This Sex Which is Not One),in New French Feminisms, ed. Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron (New York:Schocken Books, 1981) pp. 107–10.

3. Poststructuralisma) Jacques Derrida, ‘Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the HumanScience’, tr. Alan Bass, in Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, ed. David Lodge(London: Longman, 1988) pp. 108–23.b) Michel Foucault, ‘Truth and Power’, in Power and Knowledge, tr. AlessandroFontana and Pasquale Pasquino (New York: Pantheon, 1977) pp. 109–33.

4. Postcolonial Studiesa) Mahatma Gandhi, ‘Passive Resistance’ and ‘Education’, in Hind Swaraj andOther Writings, ed. Anthony J Parel (Delhi: CUP, 1997) pp. 88–106.b) Edward Said, ‘The Scope of Orientalism’ in Orientalism (Harmondsworth:Penguin, 1978) pp. 29–110.c) Aijaz Ahmad, ‘“Indian Literature”: Notes towards the Definition of a Category’, inIn Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures (London: Verso, 1992) pp. 243–285.

Suggested Background Prose Readings and Topics for Class PresentationsTopicsThe East and the WestQuestions of AlterityPower, Language, and RepresentationThe State and CultureReadings1. Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008).2. Peter Barry, Beginning Theory (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002).

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Paper 6Literature and CinemaUnit 1: James Monaco, ‘The language of film: signs and syntax’, in How To Read aFilm: The World of Movies, Media & Multimedia (New York: OUP, 2009) chap. 3, pp.170–249.Unit 2: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and its adaptations: Romeo &Juliet (1968; dir. Franco Zeffirelli, Paramount); and Romeo + Juliet (1996; dir. BazLuhrmann, 20th Century Fox).Unit 3: Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice Candy Man and its adaptation Earth (1998; dir. DeepaMehta, Cracking the Earth Films Incorp.); and Amrita Pritam, Pinjar: The Skeletonand Other Stories, tr. Khushwant Singh (New Delhi: Tara Press, 2009) and itsadaptation: Pinjar (2003; dir. C.P. Dwivedi, Lucky Star Entertainment).Unit 4: Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love, and its adaptation: From Russia withLove (1963; dir. Terence Young, Eon Productions).Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsTheories of AdaptationTransformation and TranspositionHollywood and ‘Bollywood’The ‘Two Ways of Seeing’Adaptation as InterpretationReadings1. Linda Hutcheon, ‘On the Art of Adaptation’, Daedalus, vol. 133, (2004).2. Thomas Leitch, ‘Adaptation Studies at Crossroads’, Adaptation, 2008, vol. 1, no.1, pp. 63–77.3. Poonam Trivedi, ‘Filmi Shakespeare’, Litfilm Quarterly, vol. 35, issue 2, 2007.4. Tony Bennett and Janet Woollacott, ‘Figures of Bond’, in Popular Fiction:Technology, Ideology, Production, Reading, ed. Tony Bennet (London and New York:Routledge, 1990).

Other films that may be used for class presentations:1. William Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, and Othello and theiradaptations: Angoor (dir. Gulzar, 1982), Maqbool (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2003),Omkara (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2006) respectively.2. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and its adaptations: BBC TV mini-series(1995), Joe Wright (2005) and Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice (2004).3. Rudaali (dir. Kalpana Lajmi, 1993) and Gangor or ‘Behind the Bodice’ (dir. ItaloSpinelli, 2010).

4. Ruskin Bond, Junoon (dir. Shyam Benegal, 1979), The Blue Umbrella (dir. VishalBhardwaj, 2005), and Saat Khoon Maaf (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2011).5. E.M. Forster, Passage to India and its adaptation dir. David Lean (1984).Note:

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(a) For every unit, 4 hours are for the written text and 8 hours for its cinematic adaptation(Total: 12 hours)(b) To introduce students to the issues and practices of cinematic adaptations, teachers mayuse the following critical material:

1. Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Literature onScreen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).2. John M. Desmond and Peter Hawkes, Adaptation: Studying Film and Literature (New York:McGraw-Hill, 2005).3. Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Adaptation (New York: Routledge, 2006).4. J.G. Boyum, Double Exposure (Calcutta: Seagull, 1989).5. B. Mcfarlens, Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation (Clarendon UniversityPress, 1996).

Paper 7Science Fiction and Detective Literature1. Wilkie Collins The Woman in White2. Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles3. Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep4. H.R.F. Keating Inspector Ghote Goes by TrainSuggested Topics and Readings for Class PresentationTopicsCrime across the MediaConstructions of Criminal IdentityCultural Stereotypes in Crime FictionCrime Fiction and Cultural NostalgiaCrime Fiction and EthicsCrime and CensorshipReadings1. J. Edmund Wilson, ‘Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?’, The New Yorker, 20June 1945.2. George Orwell, Raffles and Miss Blandish, available at: <www.george-orwell.org/Raffles_and_Miss_Blandish/0.html>3. W.H. Auden, The Guilty Vicarage, available at:<harpers.org/archive/1948/05/the-guilty-vicarage/>4. Raymond Chandler, ‘The Simple Art of Murder’, Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1944,available at:<http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/chandlerart.html

Paper 8World Literatures

1. V.S. Naipaul, Bend in the River (London: Picador, 1979).

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2. Marie Clements, The Unnatural and Accidental Women, in Staging Coyote’sDream: An Anthology of First Nations, ed. Monique Mojica and Ric Knowles(Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 2003).3. Antoine De Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince (New Delhi: Pigeon Books, 2008).

Julio Cortazar, ‘Blow-Up’, in Blow-Up and other Stories (New York: Pantheon,1985).4. Judith Wright, ‘Bora Ring’, in Collected Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson,2002) p. 8.

Gabriel Okara, ‘The Mystic Drum’, in An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry, ed.C.D. Narasimhaiah (Delhi: Macmillan, 1990) pp. 132–3.Kishwar Naheed, ‘The Grass is Really like me’, in We the Sinful Women (New Delhi:Rupa, 1994) p. 41.Shu Ting, ‘Assembly Line’, in A Splintered Mirror: Chinese Poetry From theDemocracy Movement, tr. Donald Finkel, additional translations by Carolyn Kizer(New York: North Point Press, 1991).Jean Arasanayagam, ‘Two Dead Soldiers’, in Fussilade (New Delhi: Indialog, 2003)pp. 89–90.Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class PresentationsTopicsThe Idea of World LiteratureMemory, Displacement and DiasporaHybridity, Race and CultureAdult Reception of Children’s LiteratureLiterary Translation and the Circulation of Literary TextsAesthetics and Politics in PoetryReadings1. Sarah Lawall, ‘Preface’ and ‘Introduction’, in Reading World Literature: Theory,History, Practice, ed. Sarah Lawall (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1994)pp. ix–xviii, 1–64.2. David Damrosch, How to Read World Literature? (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell,2009) pp. 1–64, 65–85.3. Franco Moretti, ‘Conjectures on World Literature’, New Left Review, vol.1 (2000),pp. 54–68.6. Theo D’haen et. al., eds., ‘Introduction’, in World Literature: A Reader (London:Routledge, 2012).

Paper 9Partition Literature1. Intizar Husain, Basti, tr. Frances W. Pritchett (New Delhi: Rupa, 1995).2. Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines.3.

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a. Dibyendu Palit, ‘Alam's Own House’, tr. Sarika Chaudhuri, Bengal PartitionStories: An Unclosed Chapter, ed. Bashabi Fraser (London: Anthem Press, 2008)pp. 453–72.b. Manik Bandhopadhya, ‘The Final Solution’, tr. Rani Ray, Mapmaking: PartitionStories from Two Bengals, ed. Debjani Sengupta (New Delhi: Srishti, 2003) pp. 23–39.c. Sa’adat Hasan Manto, ‘Toba Tek Singh’, in Black Margins: Manto, tr. M.Asaduddin (New Delhi: Katha, 2003) pp. 212–20.d. Lalithambika Antharajanam, ‘A Leaf in the Storm’, tr. K. Narayana Chandran, inStories about the Partition of India ed. Alok Bhalla (New Delhi: Manohar, 2012) pp.137–45.

4.a. Faiz Ahmad Faiz, ‘For Your Lanes, My Country’, in In English: Faiz Ahmad Faiz,A Renowned Urdu Poet, tr. and ed. Riz Rahim (California: Xlibris, 2008) p. 138.b. Jibananda Das, ‘I Shall Return to This Bengal’, tr. Sukanta Chaudhuri, inModern Indian Literature (New Delhi: OUP, 2004) pp. 8–13.c. Gulzar, ‘Toba Tek Singh’, tr. Anisur Rahman, in Translating Partition, ed. TarunSaint et. al. (New Delhi: Katha, 2001) p. x.

Suggested Topics and Readings for Class PresentationTopicsColonialism, Nationalism, and the PartitionCommunalism and ViolenceHomelessness and ExileWomen in the PartitionBackground Readings and Screenings1. Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, ‘Introduction’, in Borders and Boundaries (NewDelhi: Kali for Women, 1998).2. Sukrita P. Kumar, Narrating Partition (Delhi: Indialog, 2004).3. Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India(Delhi: Kali for Women, 2000).4. Sigmund Freud, ‘Mourning and Melancholia’, in The Complete PsychologicalWorks of Sigmund Freud, tr. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1953) pp.3041–53.FilmsGaram Hawa (dir. M.S. Sathyu, 1974).Khamosh Paani: Silent Waters (dir. Sabiha Sumar, 2003).Subarnarekha (dir. Ritwik Ghatak, 1965)

Paper 10

Literary Criticism *

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Paper 11

Research Methodology

Unit I: Practical Criticism and Writing a Term paperUnit II: Conceptualizing and Drafting Research ProposalsUnit III: On Style ManualsUnit IV: Notes, References, and Bibliography

Paper 12

Biography and Autobiography *

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Non-fictional Narratives*

III . Generic Elective (Any Four)

Academic Writing and CompositionTopicsUnit 1: Introduction to the Writing ProcessUnit 2: Introduction to the Conventions of Academic WritingUnit 3: Writing in one’s own words: Summarizing and ParaphrasingUnit 4: Critical Thinking: Syntheses, Analyses, and EvaluationUnit 5: Structuring an Argument: Introduction, Interjection, and ConclusionUnit 6: Citing Resources; Editing, Book and Media ReviewSuggested Readings1. Liz Hamp-Lyons and Ben Heasley, Study writing: A Course in Writing Skills forAcademic Purposes (Cambridge: CUP, 2006).2. Renu Gupta, A Course in Academic Writing (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan,2010).3. Ilona Leki, Academic Writing: Exploring Processes and Strategies (New York:CUP, 2nd edn, 1998).4. Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter inAcademic Writing (New York: Norton, 2009).

Media and Communication SkillsTopicsUnit 1: Introduction to Mass Communication1. Mass Communication and Globalization2. Forms of Mass Communication

Topics for Student Presentations:

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a) Case studies on current issues Indian journalismb) Performing street playsc) Writing pamphlets and posters, etc.

Unit 2: Advertisement1. Types of advertisements2. Advertising ethics3. How to create advertisements/storyboards

Topics for Student Presentations:a) Creating an advertisement/visualizationb) Enacting an advertisement in a groupc) Creating jingles and taglines

Unit 3: Media Writing1. Scriptwriting for TV and Radio2. Writing News Reports and Editorials3. Editing for Print and Online Media

Topics for Student Presentations:a) Script writing for a TV news/panel discussion/radio programme/hosting radioprogrammes on community radiob)Writing news reports/book reviews/film reviews/TV program reviews/interviewsc) Editing articlesd)Writing an editorial on a topical subject

Unit 4: Introduction to Cyber Media and Social Media1. Types of Social Media2. The Impact of Social Media3. Introduction to Cyber Media

Texts and PerformanceTopicsUnit 1: Introduction1. Introduction to theories of Performance2. Historical overview of Western and Indian theatre3. Forms and Periods: Classical, Contemporary, Stylized, Naturalist

Topics for Student Presentations:a) Perspectives on theatre and performanceb) Historical development of theatrical formsc) Folk traditions

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Unit 2: Theatrical Forms and Practices1. Types of theatre, semiotics of performative spaces, e.g. proscenium ‘in theround’, amphitheatre, open-air, etc.2. Voice, speech: body movement, gestures and techniques (traditional andcontemporary), floor exercises: improvisation/characterization

Topics for Student Presentations:a) On the different types of performative space in practiceb) Poetry reading, elocution, expressive gestures, and choreographed movement

Unit 3: Theories of Drama1. Theories and demonstrations of acting: Stanislavsky, Brecht2. Bharata

Topics for Student Presentations:a) Acting short solo/ group performances followed by discussion and analysis withapplication of theoretical perspectives

Unit 4: Theatrical Production1. Direction, production, stage props, costume, lighting, backstage support.2. Recording/archiving performance/case study ofproduction/performance/impact of media on performance processes.

Topics for Student Presentations:a) All aspects of production and performance; recording, archiving, interviewingperformers and data collection.

Contemporary India: Women and Empowerment

Unit 1: Social Construction of Gender (Masculinity and Feminity)

Patriarchy

Unit 2: History of Women's Movements in India (Pre-independence, post independence)

Women, Nationalism, Partition

Women and Political Participation

Unit 3: Women and Law

Women and the Indian Constitution

Personal Laws(Customary practices on inheritance and Marriage)

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(Supplemented by workshop on legal awareness)

Unit 4: The concept of Environment

State interventions, Domestic violence, Female foeticide, sexual harassment

* Suggested Readings to be provided shortly

Dalit Discourse:

* Details awaited

Modern Indian Literature : Poems and Short Stories (Dept. of English, University of Delhi)

1V. Ability Enhancement Elective Course (Any Two)English Language TeachingUnit 1: Knowing the LearnerUnit 2: Structures of English LanguageUnit 3: Methods of teaching English Language and LiteratureUnit 4: Materials for Language TeachingUnit 5: Assessing Language SkillsUnit 6: Using Technology in Language TeachingSuggested Readings1. Penny Ur, A Course in Language Teaching: Practice and Theory (Cambridge:CUP, 1996).2. Marianne Celce-Murcia, Donna M. Brinton, and Marguerite Ann Snow, TeachingEnglish as a Second or Foreign Language (Delhi: Cengage Learning, 4th edn, 2014).3. Adrian Doff, Teach English: A Training Course For Teachers (Teacher’s Workbook)(Cambridge: CUP, 1988).4. Business English (New Delhi: Pearson, 2008).5. R.K. Bansal and J.B. Harrison, Spoken English: A Manual of Speech andPhonetics (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 4th edn, 2013).6. Mohammad Aslam, Teaching of English (New Delhi: CUP, 2nd edn, 2009).

Business Communication

Objective: To equip students of the B.Com (Hons.) course effectively to acquire skills in

reading, writing, comprehension and communication, as also to use electronic media for

business communication.

1. Introduction to the essentials of Business Communication: Theory and practice

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2. Citing references, and using bibliographical and research tools

3. Writing a project report

4. Writing reports on field work/visits to industries, business concerns etc. /business

negotiations.

5. Summarizing annual report of companies

6. Writing minutes of meetings

7. E-correspondence

8. Spoken English for business communication

(Viva for internal assessment)

9. Making oral presentations

(Viva for internal assessment)

Suggested Readings:

1. Scot, O.; Contemporary Business Communication. Biztantra, New Delhi.

2. Lesikar, R.V. & Flatley, M.E.; Basic Business Communication Skills for

Empowering the Internet Generation, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd.

New Delhi.

3. Ludlow, R. & Panton, F.; The Essence of Effective Communications, Prentice Hall

of

India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.

4. R. C. Bhatia, Business Communication, Ane Books Pvt Ltd, New Delhi

Note: Latest edition of text book may be used.

Soft Skills

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English for Students of Commerce: Precis, Composition, Essays, Poems eds.Kaushik,et al.

Technical Writing and Communication in English

Unit 1

Communication: Language and communication, differences between speech and writing, distinct

features of speech, distinct features of writing.

Unit 2

Writing Skills; Selection of topic, thesis statement, developing the thesis; introductory,

developmental, transitional and concluding paragraphs, linguistic unity, coherence and cohesion,

descriptive, narrative, expository and argumentative writing.

Unit 3

Technical Writing: Scientific and technical subjects; formal and informal writings; formal

writings/reports, handbooks, manuals, letters, memorandum, notices, agenda, minutes; common

errors to be avoided.

SUGGESTED READINGS

1. M. Frank. Writing as thinking: A guided process approach, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall

Reagents.

2. L. Hamp-Lyons and B. Heasely: Study Writing; A course in written English. For academicand

professional purposes, Cambridge Univ. Press.

3. R. Quirk, S. Greenbaum, G. Leech and J. Svartik: A comprehensive grammar of the English

language, Longman, London.

4. Daniel G. Riordan & Steven A. Panley: “Technical Report Writing Today” - Biztaantra.

Additional Reference Books

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5. Daniel G. Riordan, Steven E. Pauley, Biztantra: Technical Report Writing Today, 8th Edition

(2004).

DSC 1-A: The Individual and Society. Selections from Vinod Sood, et. al., eds.,The Individualand Society: Essays, Stories and Poems (Delhi: Pearson, 2005).

1-B: Cultural Diversity. Eds. Sukrita Paul Kumar,Macmillan

1-C: Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist

William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice

1-D: Selections from Modern Indian Literature (focus: the North-East and current Dept.of English D.U.Text) /Living Literatures ed

Stories:

Play: Vijay Tendulkar---Silence, The Court is in Session

Novella: Rohinton Mistry---Such a Long Journey

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